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ecisive tone |
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mis: own;
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My windowsill is level with the faces in the
street—
Drifting past, drifting past
'o the beat of weary feet—
While I sorrow for the owners of those faces
in the street.
And cause I have to sorrow. in a land so
young and fair,
To see upon those fac
o
I look in vain fortrac
and sweet
In sallow, sunken faces that are drifting
through the street —
Drifting on, drifting on,
To the scrape of restless feet;
I can sorrow for the owners of the faces in
the Street.
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—Henry Lawton.
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One dreamy, drowsy afternoon to-
ward the end of June, having nothing
particular to do, I sauntered in the
direction of the Chelsea College gav-
dens. This shady little nook holds
the home of some of our old -sldiers.
There they sat in solemn rows of fours
and fives on the wooden benches inthe
cool, green avenue, dreaming away
the long summer afternoons, while
they watched the children play on the
grass before them.
A great longing came over me to
learn something of their lives. |
If I could cone across one alone, I
thought, there might be a chance of
it; so, with a lingering, backward look
at the old fellows, I walked on till I
came to a more secluded part of the
gardens, where the pensioners eunlti-
vated little plots of ground, and sold
flowers and ferns to the nurses and
children, the proceeds of which en-
abled them to buy tobacco and rum
and other small luxuries.
It had been intensely hot, but now
a refreshing breeze was tossing the
lilac and laburnum trees, and in the |
cool of the day the old men were hard
at work, watering, weeding and rvak- |
ing away, while they smoked and
changed opinions as to their respec-
tive nurseries.
Crossing the gravel path, I came
upon a bed composed entirely of
mignonette. Its fragrance was delight-
ful, and I paused a moment to enjoy
the scent.
This little garden excited my curi-
osity and I looked with interest at the
gardener. His face was thin and
lined, with an expression of settled
melancholy on it, but there was some-
thing in the large, dark eyes and sen-
sitive mouth that’took my fancy.
‘‘Here is an opportunity,” I thought,
*‘Hé looks a nice, approachable old
man, and I daresay would be glad to
have a chat.”
At that moment, as if by some sud-
den transition of mind, be glanced up
and fixed his speaking orbs on me. |
“What lovely miguoneite!” I ex- |
claimed, by way of opening fire. |
He smiled, but it was such a sal
smile, I wished he haln’t—it some-
how made me feel sick and sorry.
“Let me cut you some, madam,” he
said, gravely. ‘I will in a moment,
if you can wait,” |
“Please, oh, I should like nothing |
better,” I answerel, seating myself
and looking contentedly, while my
new friend went to work with a lonz
pair of rusty scissors.
His face interested me, strangely,
none the less when I noticed that the
Victoria Cross alorned his breast.
How could I get him to talk?”
“May I ask why you cultivate only
one flower?” I inquired with sudden
inspiration. |
He looked at me again, in that in- |
tense way of his, for at least a minute,
|
|
without speaking, then said irrele-
vantly:
“You have a good, kind face, lady,
and ——"’
He paused.
“Thank you for saying so,” I ve-
joined, sumewhat tamely, feeling
baffled and wondering what was com-
ing next.
“You asked me just now why I only
grew one flower. I will tell you if
you care to listen.”
“Yes,” I replied,
all attention.”
“It happened so long ago, yet it
seems only like yesterday. Mignon,
Mignon!” he half-murmured to him-
self.
I coughed softly, to remind him of
my presence.
“Lady, did you ever love anyone
very dearly?” he asked abruptly.
“Have I?” I returned, somewhat
taken aback by this unexpected ques-
tion. ‘Well yes, I have been fond of
several people I have met at different |
times of my life,” was my disc-ect
rejoinder.
“Those two were the only ones I |
cared for in the world —Mignon and |
Ralph Stanley.’’
“Who was Mignon?’ I queried,
gently, for the old man’s face was full
of emotion when he spoke her name.
“I always callel her Mignon, and |
go did he,” he continued, without |
heeding me; ‘‘the name suited her so
well. She was never without a slip |
of this,” touching the flowers in my
lap, *‘in her belt or gown. She had a
passion for miguonetie, that is why
we called her Mignon, and she was as
sweet as the flower itself, with her |
blue-bell eyes and nut-brown hair,” |
“Who was this other?” I ventured |
to ask, after a pause.
Again the veteran seemel to forget
my existence, as he sighed, and said,
musingly:
“To think that I never guessed it,
and they were such a bonny pair, too.
She could not help loving him, the
genial, handsome laddie—men and
officers alike in our regiment simply
adored him.” |
‘He served with you then?”
‘Yes, but I was only in the ranks;
while he held a commission,”
“Yet you were friends?”
“Friend-—aye! that we were; from
our schoolboy days we were chums!
When Ralph was sent to the Crimean
war 1 threw everything to the winds,
enlisted in the regiment and went,
too, and we fought in many a fierce
battle together, but one thought kept
us up through all, dear little Mignon,
the vicar’s daughter. Ah, whathappy
old times they were at the vicarage !
‘Mignon was an only child; her
father, our coach, Ralph’s and mine.
What merry little tea parties we had— |
just we four; the scent of mignonette
everywhere; the garden, the windows
and the rooms of the old house were
full of mignonette, all mignonette!”
My glance wandered to the flowers
blooming at my feet, as I tried to pic-
ture the liftle scene put before me.
““And Ralph loved Mignon as well
as I,” he pursued, ‘‘though neither of
us knew the other's secret. Well,
those happy days came to an end.
Young Stanley left Us to study for the
army, while I remained to stagnate in
my father’s office in town.
‘““How I envied Ralph’s luck. Not
that I grudged him any good luck, but
my lot in life did seem hard in com-
parison to his. As the time passed
eagerly, “I am
{ Mignon, my humdrum, monotonous |
| courage that quailed not before the
| There he lay, so white and still, with
| into their eager, glittering eyes, as
| back,
| also reveals their
my restlessness and discontent in- |
creased, Despite my attachment ta |
existence was so hateful to me. So, |
when the war “broke out and Ralph |
was ordered abroad I made up my |
| mind to go, too, in the ranks of the
| same regiment.
{ tunity not to be lost of leading a more
| glorious life; to fight for my country,
Here was an oppor-
my people and for
England,’
“dow I dreamt of the home-coming
after the work was done. Death had
no place in my mind. How I antic-
ipated the meeting with Mignon, with
the love light that I—poor fool —im-
agined she felt for me, shining in her |
soft blue eyes. I thought I would
pour out ny heart and tell her I had
come back to claim her, never to part
any more. Ah! if I had but known!”
He smiled again in his me!ancholy
way, and continued: i
“Yes, if IT had only known that she
cared for Ralph I should have been |
spared many a heartache in after |
years.” |
The old soldier gazed abstractedly at
the love of ‘old
[-his mignonette, and, doubtless, lived
over again that memorable campaign, |
while I wondered if the cross on his
breast had anything to do with his-
tory. He answered my glance. |
“I am coming to that now, lady. |
One bitter November night, or rather
morning, we awoke to find the enemy |
bearing down on us in overwhelming
numbers before our camp was astir, |
The men, however, soon roused and
fought shoulder to shoulder amid the |
roar and din of cannon, which mad-
dened alike man and beast. After
awhile I became consciousonly of one
thing—a figare a few yards ahead of
me fighting for dear life. I can see
the look on his face now! It was
trausfigured, shining with dauntless |
outslaught of the Russians. I be-
lieve, at that moment, Ralph lived in
every fiber of his being. He gloried
in a fight—no one more. He was sur-
rounded and cut off from the rest of
us by six or seven of the enemy,
double his size. Suddenly he stag-
gered and fell; then I found myself |
struggling and crushing through |
countless forms and brandishing steel, |
until I reached the stricken figure. |
his brave young face upturned to the
leaden sky. My arms went instine-
tively round him, and as I turned and
faced the lot of them —perhaps it was
fancy—but a change seemed to come
they involuntarily fell back a space or
two. It was only for amoment. They
aza'n pressed forward, and no doubt
the pair of us would have been quick-
ly cut into mincemeat, but for an un- |
expected diversion created just then |
by the arrival of the Inniskilling Dra-
goons. With their aid the Russians
were completely routel, and in the
confusion of their retreat and flight I
managed to carry Ralph back safely
to camp.
‘And you escaped unwounded?”’
“No, unluckily, lady, I received
some very bad cuts on my head and |
which brought about my dis- |
charge from the army as being unfit |
for active service. When I had some-
what recovered Ralph told me that
Mignon had promised to become his |
wife, and six months later they were
married.”
“Did Mignon ever know that you |
cared for her?’ I asked rather huskily.
“Yes; many years after, when they
came to see me here, I think, as they
carried away some of my mignonette, |
they both gnessed it for the first
time,’
A bell near by clangel out the tea!
hour as he finished speaking, so, with
a close clasp of the hand, my old man
and I parted.
PEARLS OF THO JGHT, |
Activity is not always industry.
A poor servant makes a hard mas-
ter.
A quiet mule is better than a balky
horse.
Patience will cure more pains than
physic, |
Love that enriches
poverishes itself.
True self-control handles the guides
more than the brakes, v
The less you value the world the
more it is worth to you.
An unregenerated conscience may |
make you a conscientious brute. {
Be grateul for your blessings and |
it will make your trials look small. i
not another im-
Men famishing for righteousness
cannot be fed on tlowers of rhetoric. |
People do not grow much in grace |
while they are having their own way, |
To be contented with what we have
| 1s about the same as to own the earth. |
Nothing will kill a man quicker
than perpetually feeling his own pulse.
A flower will have something sweet |
to say to you, no matter where you
put it.
Men shun the light that points out
the pitfalls on the way because it
rags.
Many men ave like most machines —
are good for most work when |
they make the least noise.
One reason why there is not more
good being done is because so many |
people want to wait until tomorrow to
begin. —Ram’s Horn. |
- — |
The Uses of Shrapnel.
When a common shell bursts among
walls oc bnildings or in a confined
space it is seen at its best. The frag-
ments and gases from the shell glance
oft the walls and strike those who
would otherwise have escaped; men |
are blown down who wonld have been
untouched in the open, and the moral
effect is generally much greater. But
even under the most favorable condi-
tions a common shell leaves much to
be desired, and it has therefore been
almost entirely superseded in the field
by shrapnel.
The common shell fails because of
the small number of bits that can be
obtained with a single sheil. The
shrapnel is designed to carry a large
number of bullets, which remain in
the shell until it has almost reached
the object. The bullets are then
blown out by the bursting charge,and
act lite a volley from a number of
muskets or pistols, so that a hundred
hits may be made by a single shell,
Novel Method of Shopliftinz.
A third arm is the clever device by
which a shoplifter in Denver, Col,
has succeeded in puzzling the shop-
keepers. A bright young saleswoman,
from whose counter several pieces of
silk had mysteriously disappeared,
noticed that a woman upon whom sus-
picion had fallen never used her left
arm but felt of the silk very carefully
with her right, expressing dissatisfac-
tion with each piece shown her. The
saleswoman in order to trap her finally
handed down a handsome piece of silk
and turned her back. When she re-
turned to the counter the piece, as she
had expected, was gone. The woman
was searched, and not only the silk
but her method of avoiding detection
|»
| procecdings were of little general inter-
| HUNDRED AND EIGHTH DAY.
| mission is being used as a Republican
| and elections had under consideration
| ing exclusion from the privilege of the
| stitutional.
| mittee to investigate whether such ex-
| ders
| League to pitch to.
| tribe,
was discovered.
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The Republican National convention which will assemble at Philadelphia June 12, will nominate William Me-
Kinley to be his own successor as President.
educated in the public schools, Poland Academy, and Allegheny College.
. 1. June 11, 1361.
for gallantry in service.
dered district.
of 80,995.
Blaine.
man. In 1892 he was a relegate-at-la
convention.
refused to permit his name to be used.
661 out of a total of 905 votes.
ceived 271 electoral votes against 176
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
Senate.
HUNDRED AND SEVENTH DAY.
The Senate agreed to the resolution
for an investigation by the committee on
Cuban affairs of the Cuban postal and
other irregularities, authorizing the
committee to visit Cuba, if necessary,
to pursue the inquiry. Beyond this the
est, some time being given to the sundry
civil appropriation bill without complet-
ng it.
A lively debate was participated in
the Scnate over the proposition, as an
amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill, to continue the life of the
industrial commission until October 31,
1001. Charges were made that the com-
campaign machine and that important
testimony had been suppressed. The
committee amendment, however, was
agreed to, the amount appropriated be-
ing increased from $122,300 to $120,500.
HUNDRED AND NINTH DAY.
The program of the leaders of the
House contemplated the launching of
the debate upon the anti-trust resolution
and bill, but it was withdrawn in order
that 190 pension bills might be passed,
and after they had been disposed of, as
a further mark of respect the House ad-
journed.
HUNDRED AND TENTH DAY.
The Senate committee on privileges
Senator Pitchard’s resolution declar-
franchise because of race to be uncon-
The committee decided by
a party vote to recommend the adop-
tion of a substitute directing the com-
clusion is antagonistic to the constitu-
tion.
Friends of the Grout oleomargarine
bill are discouraged over the outlook
and now admit that they are afraid that
action on the bill cannot be secured at
this session of Congre
THE NATIONAL
GAME.
The Atlantic League apvoears to be
upon its last legs
Robinson is cs
form for St. Louis.
Worcester has the highest
team in the Eastern League.
The Brooklyn motto. “Strengthen at
any cost,” is the one that wins.
Boston is now playing the poorest
engagement of her baseball career.
Hickman is being tried at third for
New York. Mercer has been shifted to
the outfield.
Both Barrett and Crawford, the won-
of the Cincinnati team, are out
of the game. :
Nichols says that McGraw, of St
T.ouis, is the most difficult man in the
hing in his old-time
salaried
Chicago has a string of six seasoned
pitchers in Griffith, Callahan, Taylor,
Garvin, Menafee and Killen.
Manager Selee, of Boston, has switch
ed his outfielders, Stahl going to left
field and Freeman to right, which is the
latter's home position.
Louis Bruce, the Indian pitcher of
the Toronto team, is of the Mohawk
His people live on the Caughna-
waga reservation, Cornwall, Ont.
There really are no youngsters on
the regular Brooklyn team. Every man
on that team has been plaving profes-
sional ball for a good many years.
The Pittsburg Club has further
strengthened its team in its only weak
spot—the catching department—by the
purchase of Catcher O'Connor from the
St. Louis Club.
That great baseball city, Washington.
is restricted for the season to semi-
professional ball, which is to be furnish-
ed by the “League of Maryland, Vir-
ginia and District of Columbia.”
The grand stand of the Cincinnati
Baseball Club was almost destroyed by
fire a few days ago. he loss is about
$15,000. The stand will be rebuilt by
the time the club returns from its east-
ern trip.
“The time will come,” said Manager
Hanlon the other day, “when the
League will have to legislate against
players who stand up at the plate and
foul off ball after ball. Roy Thomas, of
the Philadelphias, is one of those bats-
men. He is as valuable to a team as
a .400 per cent. hitter, for he never
steps to the plate that he does not worry
a pitcher by his persistent fouling.”
itants which
to New Mexico,
Indians- and 50,000
Among the
the last census
there were 20,00
Mexicans.
ve to
Britich customs and excise receipts
for the fiscal year just closed yielded
$10,000,000 each above the exchequer es-
timate.
lLonden is 12 miles broad one way
and 17 the other, and every year sees
about 20 miles of new streets added to
it.
Mr. McKinley was born at Ni
ge, and supported Benjamin Harrison.
for William J. Bryan.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
A Weekly Review of the Happenings Through-
out the Labor World in This and
Other Countries.
Albion, N. Y., complains of a short-
age of laborers.
There were no strikes in North Caro-
lina last year.
Twenty thousand workmen in the
building trades have been locked out
at Stockholm, Sweden.
Oneida Copper Mine, in Keweenaw
county, Mich., has been reopened after
ten years’ idleness.
Carpenters at Hazleton, Penn, have
been conceded their demand of $2.25
for a nine-hour working day.
The great scarcity of logs has com-
pelled the principal mills in the logging
districts of Minnesota and Wisconsin
to shut down. .
Striking masons and bricklayers at
Chicago, Ill, have voted unanimously
not to withdraw from the Building
Trades Council.
Nearly 1,000 men have been #irown
out of work by the closing of the con-
verter and billet mills of. the Illinois
Steel Company, at Joliet, IIL
The Panama Canal Company has
received orders from Paris to resume
work on a large scale. A great many
mechanics and laborers are being cn-
gaged. ! .
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers has decided not to build or buy |
an office building for the general offices |
of the organization in Milwaukee, Wis.
The leaders of the Amaigamated As-
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-
ers at Indianapolis have decided to or-
ganize union mills at Braddock and
Homestead, Penn. 5 .
Because of labor troubles, the McKay
factory of the United Shoe Machinery
Company, at 1 has
Winchester, Mc
been shut down, throwing out 600 ecm-
ployes. oh
A committee of the Allied Printing
Trades of New York has called on
Controller Coler, of New Yo k City, to
talk with him about a municipal print-
ing plant.
Tre Piano-makers’ International Un-
jon is growing fast. The organization
has now over 1,200 members in good
standing, and five branches of the trade
are now being formed.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com-
pany, which operates a large plant at
Frankton, Md., has closed the plant.
Three hundred operatives are thrown
out of work. The plant had been in op-
eration only a week after a shut-down
of four months. Fn
The naval constructors say that it is
not impossible to build a ship that will
cross the Atlantic in four days, but they
do not consider it practicable to mam
tain that rate of speed, because it will
cost more than it will come to.
* During the year 1809 21,080 patents
were applied for, compared with 20,080
in 1808 and 18.347 in 1897. Of these, 7,
430 were awarded after examination by
the patent office, the corresponding
number during last year having been
The new twin screw steamship Iver
nia, of the Cunard line, is one of the
largest steamers afloat. She is exactly
three times the length of the first Cun-
ard steamer, the Britannia, of 1840, of
double speed, and will carry ten times
the number of passengers and eighty
times the amount of cargo.
A wrought-iron gas main, 2
long and 3 inches in diameter
between Phoenixville and Roy
Pa. The gas is conveyed under pres-
sure of 20 pounds. :
The Alabama Great Southern Rail-
road sent a freight train over half a mile
long into Chattanooga, recently. It
came from New Orleans aud was drawn
by two locomotives.
Professor Atwater’s Cluiw.s.
Is it not strange that, after mcre than
forty centuries have elapsed since the re-
sults of Professor Noal’s experiments with
alcohol were first given to the world, even
great university professors are experi-
menting with that mysterious liquid, and
that, too, without having in all this time
achieved any appreciable results in ad-
vance of those which Noah first discovered
and his biographer first announced? Surely
the persistency of scientific investigators
of alcohol is unconquerable! One thing,
however, is pretty fully settled, namely,
that however capable the human system is
of assimilating homampatbic doses of aleo-
hol, there is always something about the
liquid thus administered which demands
at first a frequent repetition of the dose,
and later the consumption of it in sueh
allopathie quantities as turns men first into
spewing idiots, later into fiends and de-
mons, and ultimately consiguos them to the
drunkard’s grave and the drunkard’s hell
—Free Methodist.
rr ———— -
Temperance in French Army.
The French army has taken a hand in
the war against alcoholism. Although the
great military organization has not de-
cided upon any united action in the mat-
ter, certain eminent generals have given
an example that may be later followed by
the supreme heads of the army. The steps
taken by these officers are in the direction
of restricting the privileges hitherto en-
joyed by soldiers for obtaining liquor.
H
He was promoted to be a commissary sergeant in April, 1862, and was
lieutenant in September, 1862, first lieutenant in February, 1863, and captain in July, 1864. 1
on the staffs of Generals R. B. Hayes, George Crook, and Winfield S. Hancock, and in 1865
At this convention he received 182 votes for €he nomination for P
On June 18, 1896, he was nominated for Pr
He was elected in November, 1896, by a popular plurality of 6oo,000 votes, and re-
>s, Ohio, January 29, 1843, and was
enlisted as a private in the 23rd O.
commissioned second
Te served in succession
was brevetted a major
He was admitted to the bar in 1867, and settled in Canton, Ohio. In 1876 he was elected
to the National House of Representatives, and served 14 years im that body, being defea
ted in 1890 in a gerryman-
He was elected governor of Ohio in 1891 by a plurality of 21,511, and re-elected in 1893 by a plurality
He was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National convention of 1884, and
In 1888 he was again a delegate-at-large to the Republican National convention, and supported John Sher-
supported James G.
served as chairman of the
. though he had persistently
sident at St. Louis, receiving
MINES AND MINERS.
Pennsylvania Coal Output—State Ranks Next
to Great Britain in Amount Pro-
duced—Other Items.
I's coal exports during April
in value than
w 2 000,000 greater
in the same month of 18¢9, nearly all
the difference being due to higher
S,
hased a large tract of canal lands
in the New river district of West Vir-
ginia. The company will commence
the installation of electric mining ma-
chinery and erection of 400 coke ovens
about June 1.
There are districts in the bituminous
coal fields of Pennsylvania alone which
produce twice as much coal as the
State of Alabama. In fact, only States
1 e Union which produce more than
the Second district of Pennsylvania are
th of Illirois, West Virginia and
Ohio, in the order named.
A new company has purchased the
blast furnace and coke plant of the
Cherry Valley works at Leetonia, O.,
and intend to enlarge the furnace to a
daily capacity of 250 tons. In addition
to the furnace the purchasers secured
2,000 acres of good coal land adjoining.
The coke plant consists of 130 ovens
and likely be enlarged.
The struggle now going on between
capital and labor in Austria is one of
the greatest ever witnessed. There are
between 60,000 and 70,000 mine oper-
atives in the coal district of her three
northern provinces, namely, Bohemi
Moravia and Silesia. The miners have
been, the past six weeks, on a strike for
a reduction of hours and an advance of
, as well as for redress of various
oT evances.
icate of Pittsburg people have
ling to Secretary Savage, of the
Columbus, O., h quart of the Unit-
ed Mine Workers of America, the pres-
ent gniners’ situation is the most satis-
factory that has cxisted for many
months. The min
ose
A syt
Accs ITC
rs are apparently in
a more confident state of mind now, as
there is hardly a settlement in Ohio but
that the regular scale of wages is being
id. T ne condition of affairs is
pai 1€ ‘
comparatively prevalent all over the
country. It is true that there are nu-
merous strikes in progress among the
miners, but when it is taken in consid-
eration the multitude of miners and the
unlimited number of questions, upon
which there is alwavs liable to be dis-
pute, then it will be realized how
smoothly the big association is being
conducted.
The State of Pennsylvania produces
more coal than any State or country
in the world, with the exception of
Great Britain. By the returns received
from James Roderic chief of the bu-
reau of mines, interesting facts are
gathered in connection with this im-
portant industry. Je says that there
were 73.060,043 tons of bituminous coal
mined last year. these tons being 2,000
pounds, while there were also 54,034,224
tons of anthracite, of 2.240 pounds, pro-
duced ther rear. Of course a great
{ the nous coal was made
into coke, so that 12,196,570 tons ol
coke were produced, and 52805.383
te were shipped to market. It will be
seen that the total production of coal
in the Keystone State runs to nearly
130,000,000 net in the course of a
year. The only other country or State
doing better than this was Great Brit
ain last vear, which made 246,000,000 net
tons, of which about 50,000,000 were
exported. The next country on the
list is Germany, which last year is cred
ited with a production of about 120,000,-
000 riet tons of bituminous coal. France,
deal of
tons
{ Belgium and Austria follow, none of
| which countries produced over 30,000,
000 tons:
Made a Drankard by a Prescription.
A funeral took place in Paterson, N. J.,
the other day of a young wile. The phy-
sician’s certificate of death was “died of
chronic aleoholism.” The husband said:
‘Our marriage had been a happy one un-
til my wife was ordered to take whisky. I
am not to blame for the scandal. Although
I have been a temperance man for fifty-
nine years I was forced to give my wile
liquor at home or suffer scandal or dis-
grace,” The story is a sad one.
On the death of her child about a year
n evil moment
ago she was taken ill, In
the attending physician pre:
for her. She continued to
most before the h nd knew it his young
wife was a drunkard. The craving for
liquor overmastered her.
For more th a half a century her hus-
band had been a total abstainer. ~ He has a
horror of liquor. He consented to its being
administered to his wile because the doctor
said it was neces: y
When he found the
y.
it his wife had become
a slave to liquor he tried to keep it from
her. This was impos
not get it
le, for it she could
at home she would go out for it.
nt the husband gave her all
she demanded to preven andal,
Alo
\n improy
1
aking up
earth inio fire has a steel
frame «i d 1 1 blade, with
the interior portion cut away and strung
with wi
>s. which sre headed in the
» of the blade, and have
screw-threaded ends which are tighten-
ed by nuts to stiffen the spade.
One of Artemus Ward's Storles.
Artemus Ward used to tell of a lec- |
ture experience which he had in a lit-
| tle place in the far west. There was
a blizzard on the night when he held
forth
was
the audience
small. lecture,” said
| Artemus, “I ventured to suggest to
| the chairman of the committee that
| the elements having been against me
| that evening I might repeat my talk
| later on in the season. After confer-
| ring with his fellow commiteemen,
| the chairman came back and sald to
| me: ‘We haven't any objection at all
| to your repeating your lecture, but
|
i
and consequently
“After my
| the feeling is that you had better re-
made
1ansion for
What Shall We Have For Dessert)
This question arises in the family daily. Let
us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious
and healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 min. No
boiling! no baking! Simply add a little hot
water & set to cool. Flavors: Lemon,Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
Padua’s pilgrims to Rome for the
jubilee will make the journey on bi-
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1’
Address Allen S. Olmstead, LeRoy, N. Y
Morocco is famous for its fine mules.
The best come from Fez and are worth
$200 cach.
Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used
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O. ExpsrLey, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10,190. !
Nevada has a population all told of |
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age congressional district. |
The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS
CHILL ToN10. It is simply iron and quinine in
& tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c.
Th > 33 largest towns of England and
Wales have a total population of nearly |
12,000,000.
Dyspepsia is the bane of the human sys-
tem. Protect yourself against its ravages
by the use of Beeman’s Pepsin Gum,
The bakers’ strike has revealed the
fact that London's baking is nearly all
done by Germans or other foreigners. |
H, M. Nor{on, St. Paul. Minn., says: Please i
send me one bottle Frey's Vermifuge for en-
closed 25¢. I cannot get a bottle in this city.
The population of Edinburgh is now
within about 1,000 of 300,000. |
Jell-O, the New Dessert, |
Pleases all the family. Four flavors:—
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry.
At your grocers. 10 ats.
Cigarettes are smoked almost exclu-
sively in Germany, Austria, Russia and
Greece, and generally through Europe.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise
free. Dr.R.H. KLINE Ltd. 931 Arch St.Phila. Pa.
The fire department of Chicago has
98 steam fire engines.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous f
surfaces of the system. Write for tes-
timonials, free. Manufactured by
. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
California will ra
of prunes this year.
000,000 pounds
Mrs. V slow’s Soothing Syrap forchildren
aething {tens the gums, reduces inflamma-
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If you don’t feel well to-day you can be
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| “THE MESSIAH” ON THE PLAINS
Annual Musical Event of the West That
Attracts Thousands.
“Because of {ts Surroundings, and
uplifting by its earnest methods and
teaching, the Easter performance of
‘The Messiah,” by the Swedish colony
at Lindsborg, in central Kansas
each spring one of the interesting
events of the west,” writes Charles M.
Harger in the Ladies’ Home Journal.
“A musical festival that, out on the
comparatively sparsely settled prairies,
| can bring together 10,000 people dur-
! ing holy week, many of them coming
200 miles, must be excellent indeed.
The growth of the audiences in this
instance, year after year, indicates a
thorough appreciation of a worthy
rendering of Handel's great oratorlo.
The Swedes are a singing people, and
the religious sentiment is strong in
their hearts. The one cherished day
for this colony of perhaps 3,000 fami-
lies is Easter,and the chief glory there-
of is ‘The Messiah.’ Four hundred
men and maidens participate in these
renditions. The orchestra numbers 50
pieces, and is supplemented by a three-
manual pipe organ. The leaders, di-
rectors and soloists are all members’
of the Lindsborg community,
teachers in the college there.”
and
Caltivate a Sweet Voice,
Kind hearts are more plentiful than
| persistently kind and gentle voices,
land yet love loses much of its power
when the voice is sRarp and hard. Try,
i therefore, most earnestly to acquire
| the right tone in speaking, and guard
yourself carefully from falling into
careless and bad habits of voice. Often
a sharp voice shows far more ill-will
than the heart feels, but people do not
know that the speaker's “bark 1s
worse than her bite,” and they be-
lieve her to be ill-tempered and dis-
agreeable. It is so easy to pick up a
sharp and snappish manner of speak-
ing. Very often it is acquired in mirth,
and in the give and take battles of
words in which boys and girls delight.
There is no malice in their sallies, and
a great deal of fun, but meanwhile the!
voice is often acquiring a sharp and
shrewish tone which sticks through
life, making it stir up strife and ill-
will among its listeners. So watch the
tone in which you speak, and take care
that it is gentle and sweet. A kind
voice is like music in the home, and
is to the heart what light and beauty
are to the eye.—New York Mail and
Express.
Child Dies from Anthrax.
Bridgeton (N. J.) correspondence
New York Herald: An eleven-year-old
daughter of Frank Hitchner, a farmer
who lives in the upper part of Cumber-
jand county, is dying from anthrax,
having got the disease from drinking
cow’s milk. Recently he was visiting
at the home of Job Garton, a neighbor,
and drank a great deal of milk. Last
week it was discovered that four of
Mr. Garton’s cows had anthrax and
they were put to death. A few days
ago the child was taken very ill. The
doctors say she is past medical help.
It Didn't York.
Mrs. Slimpurse—It's all nonsense to
talk about managing a husband by si-
lent appeals to his good nature. It
A Lesson.
“Henrietta!” said Mr. Meeckton, ag
paused on the front step, “could
ou remember what it was you said
yesterday when you so properly re-
proved me for leaving the door open?”
I think I can. But I hope I shall not
have occasion to use i again.” “Could
vou give me the exact tones and the
gestures?” “Yes.” “Well, 1 wish you
would. I have an office boy who leaves
the door open continually, and if you
could teach me to make that speech fi
would certainly be a great help ta
me in my business.” —Washington
Star.
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. AN
dru; ists refund the money if it falls to cure,
E. W. GRoVE'S signature 1s on each boX. 2c,
laims that there is not a
1 her domain who cannot
H.H. GREE SONS, of Atlanta, Ga. are
the gpiy successful Dropsv Specialists in the
world. Ree their liberal offer in advertisement
in another column of this paper.
The wheat crop in Manitoba 1s ex-
pected to exceed last year’s by 2,500,000
bushels, and the oat crop by 600,000
bushels.
LIKE MANY OTHERS
Clara Kopp Wrote for re Pinkiants Aad.
vice and Tells what it did for Her,
‘““ DEAR MRs8. PisknayM :—I have seen
so many letters from ladies who were
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedies
that I thought I would ask your advice
in regard to my condition.
I have been doctoring for
, four years and have
Y : taken different pat-
ent medicines, but
received very little
8 benefit. I am
§ troubled with back-
ache, in fact my
whole body aches,
stomach feels sore,
by spells get short
of breath and am
very nervous. Men-
struation 1s very ir-
fl regular with severe
\ bearing down pains,
cramps and back-
ache. Ihopetohear
>) from you at once.”—
~~ CrAra Kopp, Rockport,
Ind., Sept. 27, 1898.
“I think it is my duty to write a
letter to you in regard to what Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound did
for me. I wrote you some time ago,
describing my symptoms and asking
your advice, which you very kindly
gave. Iam now healthy and cannot
begin to praise your remedy enough.
I would say to all suffering women,
‘ Take Mrs. Pinkham's advice, fora wo-
man best understands a woman's suf-
ferings, and Mrs. Pinkham, from her
vast experience in treating female ills,
can give you advice that you can get
from no other source.” "—CuARA Kopp,
Rockport, Ind., April 13, 1899.
Try Grain-O!
Try Crain-O!
can’t be done. If you want anything
you've got to say so right out. You
know this horrid old hat I've worn for
two seasons? Mrs. Makeshift—VYes;
and I suggested that you should quiet-
ly put it on and let him see you
wearing it. Mrs. Slimpurse—That's
just what I did; and when I proposed
to walk down the town with him he
said, “I'm afraid all this finery will
make my old clothes look shabby.”—
Stray Stories.
Parrot Died of Grief.
Elmer, Pa., telegram to Philadelphia
Times: A parrot belonging to Captain
Theodore Jones, of this place, died a
few days ago, and the owner is satis- |
fied that the bird died from grief. Mrs.
Jones recently died, and she had an |
attachment for the parrot, which!
helped her to while away many hours.
Soon after her death the bird began
to droop and called for Mrs. Jones re- .
peatedly until it died.
A Misogynist's Suspicion.
During the interval between the sec-
ond and third acts at English’s last
night the program showed that the or-
chestra would play “The Spider and
the Fly.” It played Mendelssohn's
wedding march. Now, a suspicion
might arise—but, of course, only in
the mind of a misogynist.—Indianap-
olis News.
Ask your Grocer to-day to show
you a package of GRAIN-O, the new
food drink that takes the place of
coffee.
The children may drink it without
injury as well as the adult. All who
try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java,
but it is made from pure grains, and
the most delicate stomach receives it
without distress. } the price of coffee.
15 cents and 25 cents per package,
Sold by all grocers.
Tastes like Coffee
Looks like Coffee
Insist that your grocergives you GRAIN-O
Accept no imitation.
5
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Puffs under th
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CASCARETS will
will clean out the s
tem’s rottenness.
becomes unshapely,
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ing always as much as it shows that there is
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ores that tell of the sys-
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